Psychiatric Team and the Social Definition of Schizophrenia - An Anthropological Study of Person and Illness

Zusammenfassung A study of schizophrenia in a modern psychiatric hospital! arising from an anthropological investigation of the work of clinical staff. This book will reveal to mental health professionals many of the unspoken assumptions of their role and confirms the power of ethnographic research in psychiatry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Schizophrenia in context; 2. Time and space in a progressive psychiatric hospital; 3. Professional domains and the dimensions of a case; 4. Clinical teams and the 'whole person'; 5. Documenting a case: the written construction of schizophrenia; 6. Moral trajectories: from acute psychosis to 'chronic schizophrenic'; 7. Historical formulations of schizophrenia: degeneration and disintegration; 8. Contemporary formulations of schizophrenia: explaining the inexplicable; 9. Schizophrenia for practical purposes; 10. The person, the case, and schizophrenia; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Barrett, Robert J. Barrett
• Assisted by: Peter J. Tyrer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521031462
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03146-2
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Studies in Social and Communit
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine